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2012-02-29 Africa North
US & Egypt negotiating: Blind Sheikh Rahman & 49 others to be swapped for 19 American hostages
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Posted by Glavimble Sheck7109 2012-02-29 03:18|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 He must really hate the USA.
Posted by Water Modem 2012-02-29 08:45||   2012-02-29 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 The "fix it team" soundly rejected by host nation. How very strange.
Posted by Besoeker 2012-02-29 08:47||   2012-02-29 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 WTF!I am not American but if he hands over terrorists to the Taliban and now the Muslim Brotherhood he is a traitor to the US!
Posted by Gruth McGurque5303 2012-02-29 08:48||   2012-02-29 08:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Gruth McGurque5303

Wisdom packed her bags, took the first set of silver wings out of America she could book, and left America a long time ago. Now in regards to Egypt, around here it is, pass the bloody popcorn.
Posted by wr 2012-02-29 09:33||   2012-02-29 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 43 pro-democracy workers, including 19 Americans, who face criminal charges from the authorities in Cairo for operating without proper registration and receiving foreign money.

The bottom line is that these are not "hostages", but "righteous busts", who were supporting agitators. I suspect a goodly number of them are employees of George Soros.

There are also other Americans who were caught throwing Molotov cocktails at police.
Posted by Anonymoose 2012-02-29 09:33||   2012-02-29 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 If the empty suit is actually thinking about this, it is proof that Soros was up to his eyeballs in the Tahir Square festivities.

Of course, one man's hostage is another man's provoctuer.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-02-29 10:13||   2012-02-29 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 If the empty suit is actually thinking about this, it is proof that Soros was up to his eyeballs in the Tahir Square festivities.

How so, Bill? (I'm still recovering from your post on the Afghanistan Koran psyops -- that pulled the whole thing into focus for me.)
Posted by trailing wife  2012-02-29 10:54||   2012-02-29 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Even if Obumble is stupid enough to go along with this, I cannot imagine that he hasn't been warned not to do it. Hard to believe.

But hey, every cloud has a silver lining, and the silver lining here would be the guaranteed end of him, his administration, and his ideology. Nobody would want to stand next to him.
Posted by gorb 2012-02-29 11:28||   2012-02-29 11:28|| Front Page Top

#9 gorb, you are assuming we will get a Republican candidate with the stones to call him on it. Hope we do. Such a candidate could also have a field day talking about Zero's apology to Hamid Karzai over the Quran burning. But I dunno if Romney will do it.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-02-29 14:39||   2012-02-29 14:39|| Front Page Top

#10 From what i have watched in the UK there is no outstanding Republican Presidential hopefuls who could wipe the floor with Bambi?
Posted by Gruth McGurque5303 2012-02-29 15:35||   2012-02-29 15:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Trading the blind Sheikh for hostages would be bad, but why would this move finish Obama politically?

Rahman was involved with the 1993 attack which was trivial compared to 9/11. Yet the Taliban who were the state sponsors of 9/11 are no longer a target for elimination (they won't share in Bin Laden's fate), rather the US gov wants to negotiate a return to power and danegeld aid payments with the Taliban.

Mullah Omar is currently not a cabinet minister in Kabul, protected and paid by the West, because he has refused Karzai's (and the West's) offers, not because the West wants to hold him responsible for 9/11.
Posted by Glavimble Sheck7109 2012-02-29 20:57||   2012-02-29 20:57|| Front Page Top

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